Markers are too small to see while recording. Suggest color bands on all tracks.

I tried using Markers to let me know when I hit a chorus and found them so dinky and hard to see against the DAWs background that they were useless. To get around this, I inserted a midi track, and chose a bright yellow for the track, then using my midi keyboard, I hit a sustained piano chord. On playback, I disabled the output and shrunk the track down. Now I at least can see clearly a bright yellow bar when the chorus comes around.
 
But, how much easier would it be if Sonar provided a 'Highlight The Track' function with at least a brighter background so you could highlight the areas that need it. Preferably, you could do so across all tracks, and possibly use more than one color, therby highlighting choruses with blue, instrumental breaks with red, etc, etc...

Snehankur
...We should be able to set different colors of the region between two markers, so when the marker goes out of the as the timeline moves we should be able to understand where are we.

 
I have suggested something like this. My proposal involves a customisable timeline ruler:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3098058

Snehankur
Yes Kev.. Exactly.
But I wonder one thing : You posted that in Oct - Does Cakewalk really listen to the users?

 
Time will tell.

I think Big Time view could be made in such a way to monitor clearly movement of the markers. There so much space we could put longer markers name and watch them coming.

I'll have to think about the ideas regarding implementing such a feature, but I would love to have the markers larger to be easier to read....
 
As far as colors? I don't think I'd mind something subtle, but for me it's more about legibility than eye-locating...
 

Not what I'm looking for as far as this topic/thread is concerned...
 
My eyesight has gotten worse with age and I have trouble reading the names of the markers on the timeline... I use a 30" monitor at 2560 resolution, so the timeline is quite small...
 

Thanks Dave...
 
I suspected that as I wrote it but thought... What the heck! :-)
 
Sorry for the distraction.... My thoughts were slower than my actions...
 
Monitor size isn't the final critical element though... It's the chosen resolution on the size monitor, eh? The struggle to have more on screen yet large enough to read! ;-)

Yes!
 
I was thinking we really don't need two time displays.... Maybe one of them could have Markers as a user selectable option added to it's current time line options?
 
 

I posted this approach a year ago and it works for me:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Using-tracks-for-song-arrangement-info-and-markers-m3224655.aspx
 
However I would like to see it baked into the product rather than having to use my workaround.

Bumping this thread to throw my support behind Snehankur's suggestion. I'd love to see Cakewalk adopt color bands/regions between markers similar to Pro Tools' implementation, as cryophonik showed (pictured below). It would be very helpful, and a cumulative time-saver.